2012 - Keele University
 

Physiotherapy

Undergraduate Postgraduate & International

 

School of Health and Rehabilitation

Promotion to Senior Lectureship

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Anne O'Brien

Posted on 03 April 2012

The University Promotions Committee has agreed the following promotion which is, as always, subject to the formal ratification of Senate and Council.

Anne O'Brien (School of Health and Rehabilitation)

Anne O'Brien has a strong profile both within the School of Health & Rehabilitation (SHAR) and the wider physiotherapy profession. She joined Keele in 1998 as one of the first physiotherapy Lecturer-Practitioners in the UK, working part-time at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Anne completed her MPhil at Keele in 2002 and moved to a full time lectureship in SHAR in 2003. She has had leading roles in curriculum development, commissioned NHS projects and Continuing Professional Development activity with local and regional NHS partners. She has undertaken programme leadership at UG level and is Co-director of the nationally endorsed rheumatology ASPIRE programme. With clinical and academic colleagues, Anne led the development and accreditation of this multi-professional specialist programme which, since 2002, has successfully recruited a range of health care professionals to post registration education. Anne has an active advisory role for Arthritis Research UK, the British Health Professionals in Rheumatology and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society. She is the invited author of four chapters in rheumatology textbooks, sits on the editorial board of the Musculoskeletal Care Journal and is also author of peer reviewed papers covering professional practice, pedagogy and clinical research.

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